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Loop bank robbery suspect tracked down through encounter with woman minutes before heist, FBI says

A March 9 surveillance photo shows a robber sticking up Fifth Third Bank at 1 S. Wacker Drive. (FBI)

Minutes before he robbed a Loop bank and exchanged gunfire with a guard earlier this month, Jawad Hakeem met a woman smoking a cigarette in an alley and struck up a conversation, according to the FBI.

He was a “sugar daddy,” he told her, and was running for president in 2024, according to a federal complaint. He gave her his phone number, saying it was a “special” one given him by T-Mobile. But Hakeem was not done leaving a trail for federal agents, according to the complaint. He left behind the gun and the gloves from the robbery when he skipped on his bill at a motel in Woodlawn.

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